DrDan, Hope to meet up at BM or SL. The rest will do you no harm at all, and you'll come back stonger.

Keir, the 80 and 60 are big hurdles, and I could've missed my best chance (2009). But I love targets and pushing myself so whilst there's breath left in me.... I would definitely go back to Abo in a flash. One of the fastest I've done without all the hustle bustle of a big city marathon. And the weather last year was great. Amsterdam is another possibility.

20th place for my age group is 2:52:11, which is within my capabilities I think. Would you believe that someone has done 2:33 this year at 50!!!!!

NightNurse, well done on the 15miler. But boo on the hooky. Hope your boss isn't on here......

I reckon the calorie counters need to be taken with a massive bag of salt. We all have such different metabolisms, let alone age, lifestyle, gender etc factors that I cannot see how they can be of any use.

Cracking posts going on in the last page or two. Very very informative. *dissapears off to have a re- read of hadd.*
Oh just 1 run today, with club mates.
3.4mile mostly uphill to mates house at 70%
9.28mile with 3 others on a rolling course. The run was moderately hard at 7.25mm but ave was 136beats per min whilst with them. So I'm guessing the downhills compensated for the up hill bits to keep average hr fairly low.

The thread is bombing along at the moment. It great to see some of the stats and improvements that folk have made. Thank you for posting those.

I ought to give an update on my training. As per my "plan" the last 4 weeks have averaged 50 Miles. Most slow running with 1 session on 80% MHR. One week was a cross country HM instead of the 80% run in which I PB'd (1:37) so I "overindulged" my Hadd training there a little. However I wanted to get a line in the sand so I can see improvemnts in training. ( I know I ought to do the 2400 Hadd test really )

Todays 16 undulating mile run was run at 69% MHR average was run at 9:15 pace. Happy enough with that especially as I took no water or gels etc. Heres some stats for the geeky side of us all.. ( I started early and it takes a while to get warmed up in frost )

I got my (very old) PB down from 1:34:55 to 1:30:09. Very pleased as I was after a time under 1:32. The last 1/3-1/4 of a mile was frustrating though when I knew I was going to be slightly over 1:30 and there was nothing left in the legs to do anything about it!

120 calories a mile here. Although I tend to take no notice of this because of the ammount of variables.
Did a whole 3.1mile today at wrexham parkrun in 20:00. To tired to run one step further whilst still enjoying it. As much as I love miles I dont see the point if your not enjoying it. Wasn't going to sacrifice the run itself though because I enjoy the fact i've motivated a few others to give it a go. Plus the bacon sarny afterwords. Sorry erhem..........hadd mode.

Just noticed the post from Brian about top 20 ranking target for the marathon. Good luck with that. I hope it works out for you. Well more that I hope the training works out, I'm sure the races will take care of itself all being well with the experience you have.

Mace, that's text book improvement. You serve as inspiration to others on this thread.
AtD, ta for the confidence. Wish I was as sure of myself. Any running at less than 1000 beats per mile is pretty efficient stuff. You go from strength to strength. Your base is gonna be a helluva well baked cake.

Cross country for me this morning. Was a bit of a toil tbh. Very boggy, windy and I wasn't at all up for it. Main reason being late night after watching Oliver at the theatre. Anyway gorrit done and moving on to another week of training. Hopefully get a couple of recognized sessions in, including 15mins at target hm pace.

Jus had another scroll back and mace did you run a half marathon pb in training? If so, BLIMEY well ran.

Brian I genuinely get a bit of a buzz from seeing other people smash there marathon time goals as I've never managed to pull it off on marathon day illness ect. So go get it Brian. Wish i'd of discovered hadd basically as soon as I stopped improving the way every new runner does.

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